The Social Network continues box office domination

The Social Network remains king

The Social Network, one of this year’s best films, took the top spot at the box office for the second week in a row, eclipsing new offerings like Katherine Heigl’s Life as We Know It and Disney’s Secretariat. With $15.5 million in ticket sales this past week, that brings the David Fincher-directed early Oscar favorite about the founding of Facebook to a grand total of $46 million in just two weeks.

Disney's Secretariat, starring Diane Lane and John Malkovich, about the greatest race horse who ever lived, made $12.6 million.

Newly knighted Superman director Zack Snyder's beautiful animated offering, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, slipped to fourth place with $7 million as the film continued to underperform, earning just less than $40 million in the three weeks since its release.

Rounding out the top five, Wes Craven's early Halloween frightfest, My Soul to Take, brought in $6.9 million -- and surely inspired a slew of nightmares.

Ben Affleck's The Townstayed strong at number six, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps slipped to number seven, the hilarious high school comedy Easy A came in at number eight, Case 39, Renee Zellweger's largely ignored latest project was number nine and You Againearned the tenth spot.